East Oakland elementary school opens a laundry service for students

For the last two weeks, yellow and green uniform shirts have soaked, spun and dried in the new laundry room at EnCompass Academy on 81stAvenue in East Oakland.

Milton “King” Forward, a second grader at EnCompass, is one student who plans to make a once-a-week delivery to the laundry room. He says it “feels good” to wear a clean shirt to school. That is precisely what Dana Turner, the office manager and attendance specialist for the 330 children at EnCompass, wants.